Islamic State religious police have been filmed beating
musicians and destroying their instruments as punishment for playing an
'un-Islamic' keyboard.
The men were pictured being hit across the back and legs
with a wooden stick in a public square after ISIS's fanatical Islamic enforcers
ruled the electric keyboard was 'offensive to Muslims'.Another picture shows two keyboards and what appears to be a
lute smashed to pieces after raids thought to have taken place in Bujaq, a few
miles to the east of Aleppo in Syria.
According to text posted along with the images on a file-sharing website, the
musicians were punished with 90 lashes alongside a man caught impersonating a
'hisbah'.The Arabic term generally refers to the obligation on Muslim
leaders to uphold the law, but in this context likely refers to a local
official or tribal elder.
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